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Hammer of Math 6/20/2022: The Nephilim CP Crunch

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to the ongoing Hammer of Math fill-in series while "Primaris" Kevin is on paternity leave. Over the weekend we reviewed the new War Zone: Nephilim GT rules, which completely shake up how army construction and...

Chapter Approved: War Zone Nephilim – The Goonhammer Review

When Games Workshop released the War Zone: Nachmund GT pack in January 2022, they were releasing the first book of their new season-based approach to competitive 40k. While Nachmund only made some minor tweaks to secondary objectives, it made...

40kstats – The Faction Pages Update

We relaunched the 40kstats website a few weeks ago and if you thought that was the end of it, you were dead wrong. And frankly, a little bit rude. We've been hard at work behind the scenes on updates...

Competitive Innovations in 9th: June 8, 2022 – T’au Still Got It

Welcome back, Dear Reader, to what will hopefully be the final week of me filling in for some time. It's not that I don't enjoy writing these - though to be clear, I don't love writing about Tyranids every week -...

Competitive Innovations 6/1/2022, Part 2: The Lightning Round

Alright, yesterday I talked about there being too much goddamn Warhammer and lots of events, covered 6 big GTs, talked about Tyranids, Eldar, and Tau. Today I'm going to run through the remaining five events, pick out any lists...

Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 1: The Tyranid Was Still in Effect

Hello, Dear Reader! Welcome back to our ongoing attempts to fill in for James "One_Wing" Grover as he wanders the fields of Worthingtonshireham or whatever, searching for himself or inner peace or some shit. The past couple of weeks...

Hammer of Math: Secondary Objectives, May 2022

Hello, Dear Reader! Primaris Kevin is off again, having overexerted himself yesterday. That means this week you get me, doing A Thing with a bunch of meta stats. In case you missed it, we've been hard at work revamping...

Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 2: Aeldari Are Fine, Actually

Innes: Welcome back to the 1.5 Edition of me taking over Competitive Innovations to give James a well deserved break ahead of the Goonhammer Open UK this weekend. I’m back with the second half of events from the weekend...

Competitive Innovations in 9th – Part 1: Tyranids are Fine, Actually

Innes: James is still on a break this week so you have me, some Scottish guy who has strong opinions on how balanced things are and a strong bias towards Tyranids that couldn’t possibly be an issue when I...

2Q22 Faction Focus: John Lennon Talks Chaos Knights

Welcome, Fallen Nobles, to a primer on Chaos Knights! The latest chaos codex of 9th edition is finally here - or at least the boxed set special edition version of it - and apparently sold out immediately. If you’re...